House Judiciary Commiittee

Partisan positions were clear at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the “Protecting Our Kids Act,” an omnibus gun control bill backed by Democrats that Republicans largely oppose.

The House Judiciary Committee has advanced legislation that would raise the age limit for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21. The bill would also make it a federal offense to manufacture or possess large-capacity magazines, and would create a grant program to buy back such magazines. Democrats are working quickly to put their stamp on gun legislation in...

A House panel has advanced a decades-long effort to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves, approving legislation Wednesday night that would create a commission to study the issue.

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, a prominent conservative who has been under federal investigation for a former relationship, would lose his House seat if convicted of a felony.

The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is asking the Supreme Court to put off upcoming arguments about whether Congress should have access to secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation

The ousted U.S. attorney leading investigations into President Donald Trump’s allies has told the House Judiciary Committee that Attorney General William Barr pressured him to resign

A federal prosecutor says an ally of President Donald Trump was given special treatment by the Justice Department

Speaking to the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, George Floyd’s brother Philonise Floyd said George was the first in the community to get a scholarship. “He made everybody else feel like they could get one, too,” Floyd said.

Philonise Floyd challenged Congress on Wednesday to “stop the pain” so that his brother George wouldn’t be just “another name” on a growing list of those killed during interactions with police.

George Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to discuss police reform. Floyd appealed to the committee to deliver justice for his brother, saying “it is on you to make sure his death is not in vain.”

Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., announces the articles of impeachment debated in the House Judiciary Committee will now move to the full House of Representatives

During the House Judiciary Committee’s debate over the articles of impeachment, Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa. and Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., disagreed on whether Congress should work out disputes in the courts before impeaching the president.

As members of the House Judiciary Committee debated the two proposed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump Thursday morning, one phrase kept popping up: “I move to strike the last word.”
Why were they saying that?
Turns out, they were using a parliamentary procedure to keep talking longer than a five-minute rule would allow.

Previewing potential articles of impeachment, the House Democrats on Saturday issued a lengthy report drawing on history and the Founding Fathers to lay out the legal argument over the case against President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. The findings from the House Judiciary Committee do not spell out the formal charges against the president, which are being drafted ahead...

In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman urged lawmakers to consider how they would reflect on their role in the impeachment proceedings when they were in “the good place or the other place.” He said in the afterlife “we may meet there Madison and Hamilton.”

The House Judiciary Committee is moving swiftly to weigh findings by fellow lawmakers that President Donald Trump misused the power of his office for personal political gain and then obstructed Congress’ investigation as possible grounds for impeachment. Responsible for drafting articles of impeachment, the Judiciary Committee prepared Wednesday morning for its first hearing since the release of a 300-page report…